Sangesari

E771666

Sangesari is an Iranian language spoken in parts of northern Iran, particularly in the Semnan Province.

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Label Occurrences
Sangesari canonical 2

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Iranian language
Western Iranian language
closelyRelatedTo Biyabunaki
Lasgerdi
Semnani
Sorkhei
country Iran
endangeredStatus vulnerable
glottocode sang1346
hasAlternativeName Sangisari
Sangisari language
Sangisori
hasBasicWordOrder SOV
hasLinguisticFeature influence from Persian
influence from neighboring Caspian languages
retention of some archaic Iranian vocabulary
hasMorphologicalType fusional language
hasNumberOfSpeakersEstimate several thousand speakers
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
series of voiceless and voiced stops
hasWritingSystem Perso-Arabic script
isDistinctFrom Gilaki
Mazandarani
Persian
ISO639-3Code sgr
languageFamily Indo-European languages
Indo-Iranian languages
Iranian languages
primaryCountry Iran
region Semnan Province
spokenBy Sangesari people
spokenIn Mahdishahr County
Sangesar area
Semnan Province
northern Iran
subgroupOf Northwestern Iranian languages
Western Iranian languages
threatenedBy language shift to Persian
usedIn everyday communication within local communities
usesScript Perso-Arabic script

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